This event is organized in cooperation with the SeaNaps Festival and moderated by Lina Hurlin of “Recht auf Stadt”. Discussed Topics and outcomes will be brought on stage during the conference “Free Culture vs. Culture for Free” on 14th October in Westflügel.

Due to the rising gentrification pressure on the cultural spaces in Leipzig and the difficulties to resist it, we are organizing a workshop that will give a constructive overview of the all existing housing models and instruments, which can be used to fight gentrification pressure, and discus together with people from the different cultural centers and anti-gentrification initiatives about actions and suitable long term solution models, which could be used to defend our cultural spaces.

The workshop consists of two parts:

Fist part (Presentation)

Problem of gentrification and its influence on community and cultural centers

Presentation of the existing housing

models/instruments and actions that are used to fight against gentrification, and how effective they are.

Comparative analysis of advantages and disadvantages of each housing model/instrument.

Second part (Interactive discussion)

What housing model/instrument and actions could be the most suitable to applied in case of cultural spaces.

What are the important issues to take care when we are dealing with cultural spaces.